IGT - 9/19/16 - Braves at Mets

[Centerfield]

Weather permitting.

[Frayed Knot]

A DH due to a rainout would just be the icing we need on the already injury-riddled cake that is our pitching staff.

Aaron Blair vs Syndergaard if and when this comes off.

Blair has made ML 12 starts this year (3 vs NYM) but only once since he started twice in a row vs the Mets back in June. The Mets got him for 3 runs over 5 innings then 8 earned over 4.1 at which point he was immediately demoted to the minors. His one start since his return wasn't a whole lot better [5 runs on 8 hits in 4 IP vs SFG] and he's still looking for his first ML win (0-6)
Overall he sports a 8.23 major league ERA and a 4.77 minor league one despite coming into the season as a top 50-ish prospect and a former 1st round draft pick (36th overall in 2014).

[Benjamin Grimm]

National Weather Service wrote: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 9pm, then scattered showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. East wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Inciarte CF
Garcia 3B
Freeman 1B
Kemp LF
Markakis RF
Flowers C
Peterson 2B
Swanon SS
Blair P

Reyes 3B
Cabrera SS
Cespedes LF
Granderson CF
T.J. Rivera 2B
Conforto RF
Loney 1B
Rivera C
Syndergaard P

Edited September 19, 2016 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

Your First Place (Wild Card Division) Mets

Reyes 3B
Cabrera SS
Cespedes LF
Granderson CF
Rivera 2B
Conforto RF
Loney 1B
Rivera C
Syndergaard P

Two Riveras, no Bruce.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Not 2 days after Terry assured us he'd play Bruce everyday to get him going again, he gets 2 days off.

Not complaining exactly.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Me neither. I don't mind Terry changing his plans, but since they are so often subject to change, he probably should stop making pronouncements about what he's going to do.

[Edgy MD]

The flip side is that Conforto gets his first start in what seemed like 12 days (checking ... it was 15!) and he gets run right back out there the next day.

Wouldn't it be something if that BFG wakes up?

[Ceetar]

I suspect the only 'plan' regarding Collin's comments about Bruce were to publicly avow confident in him and make any "mental health" days off he gave him seem more like mental health days than the benchings they probably are.

[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: The flip side is that Conforto gets his first start in what seemed like 12 days (checking ... it was 15!) and he gets run right back out there the next day. Wouldn't it be something if that BFG wakes up?

Conforto getting hot could make a huge, huge difference. And he is arguably the best candidate to do just that. This has been one of the beefs I have with Terry. I get that he wanted to get Bruce going, but it should have been at the expense of Loney, not Conforto.

[ashie62]

Tear it up Conforto!

[Ceetar]

Duda, provided he's actually healthy and not just here to be here, is the best option for more offense. I'd argue Bruce over Conforto too, though Bruce is seemingly as lost as Conforto was in May and June. Anything that gets Loney out of the lineup though.

[Edgy MD]

The thing about Duda is that, unlike Conforto or Bruce, he's been out of circulation, and he's got to head out there not knowing how his back will respond.

But we all seemingly agree that any of these goals should come at the expense of Loney, who should be/have been relegated to pinch-hitter/defense replacement by now.

Any eventual return of Flores should also be pushing against Loney, and is more likely since Flores is already established by and for Terry as a first base option.

[Zvon]

Ceetar wrote: Duda, provided he's actually healthy and not just here to be here, is the best option for more offense. I'd argue Bruce over Conforto too, though Bruce is seemingly as lost as Conforto was in May and June. Anything that gets Loney out of the lineup though.

I want Bruce out of the lineup. If Conforto can just give us average stuff at the plate we are improved. And if Conforto gets hot.....
fugheddabouttit.

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[metirish]

Feeling very excited.......weird the game in on PIX

[Zvon]

Thor looking good in the first.

Again, TJ Rivera with that strange loopy throw. I want an isolated camera on him SNY.

[metirish]

A Recker sighting , swoon

[Zvon]

Not such a smooth 2nd. But could have been worse.

3-0 not us.

This place wasn't here for a little bit (at least for me). I got a TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES screen (or something).

Edited September 19, 2016 by Guest

[metirish]

Yeah me too, forum gone for like 20 min

Thor needs a quick hook

[Zvon]

My nemisis. I forgot to ask him to break his leg this time. GAH!

[metirish]

Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers

[batmagadanleadoff]

metirish wrote: Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers

The booth is talking about this cover.



But they can't seem to remember that inside that issue was the piece that first brought national attention to some high school sandlot player from Crenshaw High. The black Ted Williams. Fella by the name of Strawberry.

[ashie62]

Thor has zero in a game we have to win.

Might as well pull him and hope for a high high scoring game.

LGM

[ashie62]

metirish wrote: Feeling very excited.......weird the game in on PIX

Still excited?

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: Keith in peak form talking about his various magazine covers The booth is talking about this cover. [fimg=300]http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/epm12jul09/zz6557a.jpg[/fimg] But they can't seem to remember that inside that issue was the piece that first brought national attention to some high school sandlot player from Crenshaw High. The black Ted Williams. Fella by the name of Strawberry.

That's the best scan of the cover Ive ever seen. Thanks, that goes in the Keith folder.

[Zvon]

Ashie62 wrote: Thor has zero in a game we have to win. Might as well pull him and hope for a high high scoring game. LGM

We gotta get 5 from him. Maybe he'll find himself.

This Swanson guy...one team cannot have two nemisis's. Or is it nemisi?

[ashie62]

He'll get 5 the hard way. Oh. stolen base!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

This is un-Thor like.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Nemeses, according to wordhippo dot com.
Keith stories crack me up. He was nervous for his SI shoot so they popped open
a bottle of Dom to loosen him up a little. I wonder at what point it hits some stars
to think hot damn this is the freakin' life I got going here.

[Lefty Specialist]

He'll be lucky to go four the way he's pitching.